Hat retainer



- March 2, 1943' J. GOLDSTEIN ETAL 2,312,813

HAT RETAINER Filed June 17, 1941 JDSE'PH 6040s TE/N 6 mam A'FI'ORNEY Patented Mar. 2, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFQICE 2,512,813 HAT RETAINER Joseph Goldstein and Charles A. Marks, New York, N. Y.

Application June 17, 1941, Serial No. 398,398 1 Claim. (01. 132-55) Women's hats are often made to be perched on the head, instead of fitting over or around it. As such they are insecure in position and readily fly off unless held by ribbons, hatpin or other similar devices which necessarily afiect the external appearance of the hat.

The main object of our invention therefore is to provide simple means for securing a hat or other object of headdress.

Another object of our invention is to provide internal means for a hat to hold the same in place on the head of the wearer.

Other and further objects of our invention will become apparent from the description of our invention in connection with the drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in vertical cross-section of a hat according to our invention shown as applied in use.

Figure 2 is a face view of the securing means.

Figure 3 is a side view of Figure 2, and

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 2 of a detail of a modification.

We have shown conventionally in Figure l a hat I provided with the usual interior lining 2 and carried on the head 3 of the wearer. A comb 5 is secured to the lining 2 and extends horizontally or substantially so into the hair 4 of the wearer.

Thecomb 5 is provided with a basal portion I from which extend a number of closely spaced teeth 6, the latter being curved so as to provide a greater area in engagement with the hair and also to accommodate the curvature of the head.

.A yoke 9 engaging the basal frtion 'l of the comb is secured thereto by a :tivet l0 and is formed with a sleeve II in which; is mounted an attaching means 8, in this case ag g'safety pin with the open side directed away from the teeth 6. In Figure 4 as a modification thfi-basal portion 1 of the comb 5 is provided with aiij integral sleeve l I, a form which is of advantag when the comb is made of molded plastic material.

In use the comb is secured to the lining V2! in the inside of the hat by means of the pin 8 and is entirely invisible. We have found that a relatively small comb is entirely adequate to secure the hat against ordinary distuibance. At the same time it will be noted that the hat may be readily removed. One of the great advantages of our invention resides in the fact that the hat is firmly fixed in any desired position on the head of the wearer with a minimum of interference or disturbance of the hair do.

We claim:

A comb comprising a basal portion and prongs extending therefrom in one direction, a yoke engaging and secured to the free end of the basal portion and provided with an vextension in the direction opposite to that of the prongs, a sleeve at the end of the extension parallel to the said edge of the basal portion and a safety pin carried by the sleeve.

' JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN.

CHAS. A. MARKS. 

